Leftists in the academy get very defensive when you charge them with killing the liberal arts, but today the Washington Post provides fairly damning evidence that this proposition is true. The subhed to their story on the “most-regretted majors” of college graduates, drawn from a Federal Reserve study, is: “Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly.” Who dominates the liberal arts in our colleges and universities? Leftists. QED. …
The amusing part of this story is that it doesn’t place the blame for this precipitous decline on the chief culprits, namely postmodernist leftists who have desiccated the humanities with their soul-draining “critical” theories, nor on the high cost of colleges through administrative bloat. Instead, the chief culprit is . . . Barack Obama. I wish I could say I was making this up. But no:
“In the period of the Great Recession, you had Barack Obama out there saying we need more STEM majors and fewer English majors,” Schmidt said. “That was a story you were hearing from a lot of people in influential positions … and I think that made a difference.”
Go ahead and have a good laugh at this.
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